Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

by James Boswell

EN·~21 hours·5 chapters

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5 total

BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON

0:01

By James Boswell

0:08

Preface

1:07

INTRODUCTION

24:47

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

20:39:05

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Release date

2006-05-12

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Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1564

Subjects

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography CT PR

About the author

James Boswell

1740–1795

Best known for turning a friendship into one of the most famous biographies in English, this lively Scottish writer recorded conversations, travels, and private struggles with unusual honesty. His journals and memoirs still feel vivid because they catch people as they really sounded and behaved.

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